NHS National Director of Patient safety; England

Aidan Fowler is the National Director of Patient Safety for the NHS in England and was previously Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Director for NHS Wales. Aidan was a Colorectal Surgeon and Chief of Service for Surgery before entering the NHS Leadership Academy Fast Track Executive Training Programme during which he worked as an executive at UH Bristol and subsequently worked as a Medical Director in Mental Health and Community care. Aidan trained as an Improvement Adviser(IA) with the IHI and was IA to the South West Safer Patient Programme and has worked on Patient Safety with WEAHSN. He has also worked as faculty with the IHI.